Electronic Oddities - 1860 to 1970 (2004)

Fascinating radio special on experimental music's earliest argued roots. Copy of opening text below, transcript of entire text bundled with upload.

"Originally broadcast on Friday 29th October 2004 on London's Resonance 104.4fm. Please forgiven the terrible 'booming' sounds in the studio - the people next door to the radio station seemed to have been having a party that night! This show is dedicated to Jhonn Balance, who sadly departed this mortal Coil just 2 weeks after the show was broadcast. You can hear one of his tracks in the show.

Early Electronic Oddities is an exploration of the strange and subliminal sounds of early electronic musical instruments from 1860 to 1970, and many now almost obselete daring and experimental creations like the Mixtur-Trautonium, the Ondes-Martenot, the Rhythmicon, the Ondioline, the RCA synthesizer, electro-theremin and the inventions of the Italian Futurists and Raymond Scott.  Live discussions, field recordings and amazingly unearthed rare recordings presented by two theremin players, Miss Hypnotique and Bruce Woolley.  Features recorded contributions by Bob Moog and Jean-Jacques Perrey."

Part 1:
1. Radio Nottingham - the Radiophonic Workshop
2. Chorale - Antonio Russolo
3. Celestial Nocturne - Samuel Hoffman (theremin)
4. Concerto for Ondes-Martenot - Andre Jolivet featuring Jeanette Martenot
5. Various soundtracks - Paul Tanner plays Electro-theremin
6. Now in heaven you can hear the latest Fall album - Hypnotique (Rhythmicon)
7. Jean-Jacques talk about the Ondioline
8. Demonstration from Fantasy for Mixtur-Trautonium - Oscar Sala
9. Telstar - The Tornadoes (Clavioline)

Part 2:
10: Bob Moog - talks about the RCA Synthesizer (background music: the Man from Uranus)
11: Nola - Felix Arndt (RCA synthesizer)
12. Return of the Elohim Pt 1- Zorch (VSC3)
13. CoilANS - Coil (ANS synthesizer)
14. Silver apples of the moon - Morton Subotnik (Buchla Modular)
15: Bob Moog talks about Raymond Scott (music from 'Manhattan Space Research')
16: Zwi Zwi oo oo oo - Delia Derbyshire (Wobbulator)
17: Modified clarinet - Reed Ghazal (Circuit Bent instrument)
18: In a Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire (Radiophonic Workshop)
19. Return of the Elohim Pt 2 - Zorch (VSC3)
20: Futurama (Raymond Scott advert)

Heavy Nukes - Demo 2008, 7" 2012

THIS is punk that excites me! Beyond Shitlickers (he even blatantly rips them off...multiple times...with negative fucks anti-numbering into infinity), and at other times so Mob 47 it's Mob 48. A shockingly tight dis-noise barrage that wears a wizard hat atop it's wizard hat in studious mimicry and passion. You'll thrash the pose, you'll crash the posers, you'll wish I'd ripped the 12" too since it's even more fatally catastrophic than this material.

P.S.: The demo is confusing as hell, as it seems to be completely different songs to versions that appear on the 7"...but you do get full scans of the 7".

Black Winter - Live 1987

This comes courtesy of the nigga Mahler, whose o.g. archives of live / reh tapes is one of the most mentally demolishing I've seen. His words on the project below...

"Live tape by BLACK WINTER, a totally unknown UK band, very much in the vein of AMEBIX, AXEGRINDER, (demo & 1st LP) HELLBASTARD & HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST. Recorded at this venue called "The Queens head", somewhere in the UK on the 25th of July 1987. Very decent live recording that has been restored & mastered too, from a 28 year old tape. 4 tracks, 27 minutes."

Slaughter Strike - "A Litany Of Vileness" Demo Tape 2010

Grinding hardcore with an early 90s grind/death backbone (those scenes were completely fused back then). I think the Utopia Banished era of grind influence actually works very well for them (the intro especially seems like such an obvious spliff-pass to that specific LP). There's even a few drips of early 90s doom tucked away in there...but mostly the tunes remind me of Citizen's Arrest at Daryl's deathliest. Production feels analog (if it's digital I don't give a fuck cuz it still kicks ass), every element is completely full and non-competing in the mix. This band nerded hard on influences right down to production styles, and that nerding payed off spectacularly. One of my earlier rips, and I still think I did a Keller-stellar job!

Septic Death - FLAC Live At The Cathey De Grande 1984

Distant sounding, yet audible. The ripper wrangled the tape hiss sufficently, but the recording lacked any power to begin with. Why people rip shows of this quality at this quality is beyond me...but we are collectors, and this is Septic Death...

Rabia - Interview, EP & Demo 1992 / 1995

Instead of my snooty 12 cents, I'll let the interview (and my o.g. ripz) do the talking. It goes without saying I zoomed the fuck in on this band when I read this issue "back in the day" (MRR #134 / July 1994). If it's not intuitive to know how to enlarge images in this trillionth millennia of the internet, you're just failing at existence.

 

Troubled Times Radio Interviews 1988: Unseen Terror, Rudimentary Peni, Daz Russel, Digby Pearson

Phone interviews conducted live during the Troubled Times radio show (out of Berkeley I believe). I'd like to know what happened behind the scenes to authorize the expense of these pre-internet phone calls (the logistics of massive timezone dilation occasionally interferes in some fashion too)! The interviewees speak (literally) for themselves on this. The host doesn't seem like the brightest bulb, so some of the questions bring unintentional hilarity. Quality is decent, all interviewees are audible with tolerable tape hiss (I sourced these in trades over the decades, mostly from the U.K. of course). One millennia when I can be arsed to find the tape, I'll re-rip the '88 interview with Mick Harris on the show (HYSTERICAL!).

Jet$et And Bloedbad 1981-1984

Holland's Jet$et was female fronted punky thrash that often deviated into tracks of total no-wave. They weren't untalented in each genre...but they weren't talented either. Jos/Larm was supposed to release their discography LP a few years ago, but...here we are...sitting...juuust sitting. Their half of the download is composed of various solo and split demos with not totally crude production.

Sharing one of those splits were domestic peers Bloedbad (Bloodbath), who were absolute chaos-thrash in a parallel vein to Larm. Speedy, bouncy, simple as fuck but tight, somehow nicely recorded, heavy...dude, I'd love to see Jos finance a discography for THEM!!! (I took care of that in the download too 😇 !)


Syphilitic Vaginas - 9" (wavs) 2007 & 12" 2008

The world's most seriously performed parody project. R.U.G.I.S.M worship, Venomous Frost worship, Magnus' one man band had and (outside of Bastard Priest) still has the biggest cock-ring in the metalpunk orgy pit. Production matches the feel of Yugoslavian death-thrash demos from the mid-80s (you know that is the blackest mark of trve kvlt sovnds). Clay sent me the wavs around the time of the 9"s release, the 12" is in mp3. Possessed to FUCK nigga!

Terrorizer's first interview (Decibel Of Death zine 1987)

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